The People Who Support Linux: "Be a Part of Creating Your Own Free World"

This is an ongoing Linux.com series that profiles The Linux Foundation’s individual supporters and begins to collectively illustrate a very important part of the Linux community. Individuals help support the work of Linux creator Linus...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 11, 2010

How Linux Can Beat Apple

The iPhone 4 came out this week. Apple continues to raise the bar for the mobile software industry in terms of good design. Companies that have embraced Linux should take heed. I ask the question as to whether or not Linux can beat Apple...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 9, 2010

Eclipse Study Shows Major Gains for Linux Among Developers

Developers and programmers are always the earliest adopters of technology, paving the way for the rest of us. And nowhere is that more evident than with Linux. Over the last 10 years, developers have brought Linux in through the back door...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 9, 2010

Free Training Webinar Covers Linux Admin 101: Getting to Know Vim

There is a really useful, free training webinar available now from one of our regular Linux.com writers (and former openSUSE Community Manager), the talented Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier. It is titled “Getting to Know Vim” and you can register...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 7, 2010

Is That You in Those Killer Linux Threads?

Since launching the Linux.com Store in March, we’ve welcomed a lot of new visitors and members to the Linux.com community and have gotten some great feedback about the merchandise. One of my favorites: Now that everyone has had a chance to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 3, 2010

LinuxCon Program Announced: This Year’s Themes

It’s been a hectic few months narrowing down the content for this year’s LinuxCon. Craig Ross and I have been working on this schedule for what seems like years, but we are very proud to announce it today. You can find it here. I think the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 26, 2010

The People Who Support Linux: Driving 4,000 Miles to LinuxCon

This is an ongoing Linux.com series that profiles The Linux Foundation’s individual supporters and begins to collectively illustrate a very important part of the Linux community. Individuals help support the work of Linux creator Linus...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 25, 2010

Patent Absurdity

Thanks to the Free Software Foundation and its donors for producing this video that helps to expose the absurdity of our patent system today. It debuted earlier this month at the Connecticut Film Festival. The 28-minute video (it’s worth...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 21, 2010

Thoughts on 2.6.34

So, as most people will have heard, the 2.6.34 kernel was released on May 16. Back in February, I was predicting a mid-May release, so I hit it almost exactly. That says nothing about my prediction skills, though (which are horrible) and a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 18, 2010

A Pig Lover's Oath

I honor and loveEvery pig that I seeFor maybe one dayThat pig will love me. Our friendship with pigswill always lastIt doesn’t matterWhether it’s slow or fast. If we continue to hugEvery pig we canOur love will growAs large as this land....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 16, 2010

Community Feedback Helps Make Linux.com Even Better

The annual Linux.com Planning meeting took place at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit last month. It was a great opportunity to meet face-to-face with some of the most active Linux.com community members and to understand what kinds...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 14, 2010

Fragmentation is Good and Bad for Linux

Lately I have been hearing criticism about embedded Linux and how fragmentation, as represented by the many flourishing Linux projects such as Meego, Android and webOS, is bad and dangerous for Linux; these critics suggest that...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 11, 2010

The People Who Support Linux

The Linux Foundation’s individual supporters help to support the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and other important activities that advance Linux, while getting a variety of other fun and valuable benefits.It is this collective...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 6, 2010

Jon Corbet QA: Upstream Contributions Influence Direction of Linux Kernel

Jon Corbet is a highly-recognized contributor to the Linux kernel community. He is a developer and the executive editor of Linux Weekly News (LWN). He is also The Linux Foundation’s chief meteorologist, a role in which he translates...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 4, 2010

Linux.com T-shirt Design Contest Finalists Announced

Time to Get Out the Vote! Two months ago we invited the community to create its own unique designs to appear on Linux.com Store merchandise – – designs that would invoke feelings of geek pride, freedom, fun, eccentricity and originality....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 26, 2010

Miss Collab Summit? Now You Can See What You Missed

Last week, we had our fourth annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. In the years since our first one at Google in 2007, quite a bit has changed: more mobile content, a bigger audience and a broader collection of developers, industry...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 22, 2010

Announcing the 2010 We’re Linux Video Winners

I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 We’re Linux Video Contest. We had quite a few amazing videos to choose from, many of which captured the spirit of Linux. Winners First place: Go Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 19, 2010

Linux.com Gurus at Collaboration Summit

We had a great meeting this morning at the LF Collaboration Summit with the Linux.com Gurus and community members. Here’s a fun picture that includes (from left to right): Masen Marshall, Andrea Benini, David Ames (LF staff) and Matthew...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 16, 2010

QA with rPath Founder & CTO: "Just Use Linux"

There was interesting discussion during Day 1 at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit about virtualization and cloud computing as it relates to Linux. Former Red Hat executive and rPath Founder and CTO Erik Troan took a few minutes to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2010

QA with rPath Founder & CTO: "Just Use Linux"

There was interesting discussion during Day 1 at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit about virtualization and cloud computing as it relates to Linux. Former Red Hat executive and rPath Founder and CTO Erik Troan took a few minutes to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2010

QA with Nokia's Ari Jaaksi: MeeGo Revs Up

Nokia’s Vice President of MeeGo Devices, Ari Jaaksi, will kick off the afternoon at today’s Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with his keynote at 1:15 p.m. PT. He took a few minutes with us this morning to share what he’ll be speaking...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 14, 2010

Linux.com Planning Meeting Details

We’re preparing for this Friday’s Linux.com Planning Meeting at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit. The session begins at 9 a.m. PT and will take place in room Osaka. We’re expecting this year’s Linux.com Gurus to join us and we...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 13, 2010

IBM’s Open Source Patent Pledge

For those of us that have worked for years in open source, rumors in the press of IBM “breaking its open source patent pledge” were met with a bit of dismay. IBM is one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and dozens of critical...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 7, 2010

QA with Parallels CEO: Prioritizing Kernel-Level Contributions

With more than a decade under its belt, Parallels ranks among the most active corporate contributors to the Linux kernel and says that is serves 10 million users in 125 countries. The company today is joining The Linux Foundation and is...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 6, 2010

Silly Grin

This is actually from last year (LCA in Tasmania), but Oscar, who took the picture, was diving around the world for many months and only made the pictures he took available to me the other day. I thought I had a good life, but Oscar and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2010